Word: pittsburgh
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...Atlantic City, the Financial Advertisers Association fairly oozed Faith, Confidence & Recovery. President Leslie G. McDouall of the New Jersey Bankers Association keynoted: "I am satisfied that the opportunities are just as great today as they were in the so-called boom period." From President Frank F. Brooks of Pittsburgh's First National Bank popped a curious suggestion for the "most gigantic advertising campaign America ever saw, regardless of expense, to promote economic literacy. . . . a campaign that will draw the sharp line between right and wrong economics...
Married. Lenore Kight, 22, fastest U. S. woman swimmer; and Cleon J. Wingard, 24, Pittsburgh physical education teacher; in Wellsburg...
What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
...Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
...inventor (thermos bottles) and founder of what is now General Electric's works in Pittsfield, Mass. Born nearly 50 years ago in Great Barrington, Mass., Son Harold was the eldest in a family of nine, and his brother Clarance is now head of the Mellons' Union Trust Co. in Pittsburgh. After graduation from Yale where he led the intercollegiate championship hockey team of 1908, Harold Stanley took a turn at banking, later entered J. G. White & Co., big utility engineering and financing concern. In 1915 he shifted to Guaranty Trust Co., was president of its security affiliate by the time...